White House
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Biglaw
Wait A Second, Why *Is* Sidley The Employer Targeted Over Abortion Travel Costs Policy?
Hmmm.... makes you wonder. -
Biglaw
Biden's Granddaughter, A D.C. Biglaw Associate, To Marry T14 Law School Grad At White House
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Politics
What's A 27-Year Age Gap Amongst (Law Firm) Partners?
They were married at the White House when she was just 21.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.05.20
* A Chicago lawyer featured on the Netflix show Indian Matchmaking is facing a tough adjustment after experiencing the fame of being on the show. This series keeps showing up on my queue… [Chicago Sun Times]
* The Los Angeles District Attorney’s husband will face charges for waiving a gun at protesters near his home. [Hill]
* A new lawsuit is demanding that White House briefings have sign language interpreters. [New York Times]
* The American Bar Association has voted on a set of best practices for third-party litigation funding. That sentence may sound boring, but the implications are profound. [American Lawyer]
* A new class-action lawsuit claims that the popular app TikTok steals consumer data and sends it to China. [NPR]
* Check out this story of a lawyer who paid off $200,000 in student loans in two years. Man, she beat me by 22 months, hope she doesn’t start a blog… [Business Insider]
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Morning Docket: 06.11.20
* An attorney who spent more than 10 years on the run has been sentenced to three years in prison for developing and selling illegal tax shelters. Sounds like a good plot for a John Grisham book. [Accounting Today]
* A lawyer for former National Security Adviser John Bolton alleges that the White House is claiming Bolton’s new book contains classified information that cannot be revealed. [CBS News]
* The Florida Supreme Court has suspended an attorney who has filed thousands of questionable lawsuits against property insurers. [Insurance Journal]
* The Attorneys General of most U.S. states and territories have filed litigation against 26 drugmakers for allegedly fixing the price for generic drugs. [Reuters]
* NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has paid $10 million to settle an age discrimination lawsuit alleging that it systematically fired employees over 40 and replaced them with younger workers. Sounds like a twisted kind of Midsommar… [CBS News]
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Lawyerly Lairs, Politics, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: George And Kellyanne Conway's $8 Million Mansion
This prominent presidential adviser and her husband, a longtime Biglaw partner, are living large. -
Federal Government, Money, Politics
Trump White House Lawyers: How Much Are They Worth? (Part 3)
One of these legal eagles has a nine-figure fortune. -
Federal Government, Money, Politics
Trump White House Lawyers: How Much Are They Worth? (Part 2)
Meet a Biglaw associate (not partner) who earned more than $800,000 last year. - Sponsored
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
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Federal Government, Money, Politics
Trump White House Lawyers: How Much Are They Worth? (Part 1)
Some of these lawyers are rich; others, not so much. -
Department of Justice, Federal Government, Politics
D-Day At DOJ: The Trump Administration's 'Beachhead' Team For The Justice Department
Here are the 24 individuals who will be holding down the fort at the Justice Department for the Trump Administration. -
Biglaw, Department of Justice, Federal Government, Politics, White House Counsel
Jones Day In The (White) House: The Biglaw Firm Fills Top Jobs In The Trump Administration
Congratulations to these legal eagles on their well-feathered nests in the Trump Administration. -
Racism
The Obligatory Takedown Of Every Stupid Line Of Bill O'Reilly's Version Of Slavery
Fine. Here is a response to every stupid line in Bill O’Reilly’s slave worker fantasy. -
Politics, Trivia Question of the Day
Did Slaves Really Build The White House?
The veracity of this statement has been hotly contested since First Lady Michelle Obama made it last night.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.29.16
* Fanfic come to life! Allison Janney handles the White House press corps as C.J. Cregg. Can you catch all the West Wing references she throws out in under a minute? [The Decider]
* Sure, people want a “sleep revolution,” but it is only likely to garner ridicule in the legal profession. Aren’t we lucky? [Law and More]
* Salon’s latest HOTTAKE suggests Bernie or Bust folks should vote for Donald Trump. Yes, it is that stupid. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Behind the IP fight that killed a fashion house revival. [The Fashion Law]
* Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is really pissed at the Southern Poverty Law Center because they filed an ethics complaint against him. I mean all he did was tell probate judges not to marry same-sex couples… [Wonkette]
* U.S. military says U.S. military is not guilty of a war crime for bombing a Doctors Without Borders hospital. [Huffington Post]
* The impact an eight-justice Supreme Court may have on climate change. [Green Biz]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.01.15
* It seems that Dentons didn’t have its fill after fattening itself up with a Luxembourg firm over Thanksgiving, so now the megafirm is considering feasting upon two Latin American firms — Cárdenas & Cárdenas and López Velarde Heftye y Soria — for its dessert. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Election 2016 is a year away, but it’s easy to see the makeup of the Supreme Court will continue to be an issue for presidential candidates, especially since both parties know “[w]e are one justice away” from a liberal or conservative majority. [MSNBC]
* Dean Martha Minow says Harvard Law will create a committee to investigate whether the school’s shield should be changed due to its ties to a cruel slaveowner. Send your comments, questions, and complaints to royall@law.harvard.edu. [Harvard Law Today]
* Robert Lewis Dear, the alleged gunman behind the Colorado Planned Parenthood shootings, is expected to be charged with first-degree murder next week. It’s not yet been disclosed whether he’ll be charged with federal domestic terrorism. [Los Angeles Times]
* This turkey won’t be pardoned: The Thanksgiving Day White House fence-jumper who draped an American flag over the fence while gripping a U.S. Constitution pocket guide in his teeth was criminally charged after ruining the Obamas holiday. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.10.15
* Hey there 3Ls — need a handy excuse for why you didn’t do the assigned reading? Here’s some help. [Law Prof Blawg]
* One law review’s attempt to address diversity among its ranks. [Yale Law Journal]
* One Missouri Law School professor supports the protesting students, but with caveats. [Truth on the Market]
* Most lawyers DO have fulfilling careers — well, as long as you live in Texas. Hardly seems worth it. [TaxProf Blog]
* One NYU Law professor, Jason M. Schultz aka @lawgeek, is moving on up. He’ll be advising the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on IP and innovation. Congrats! [Twitter]
* On the eve of yet another GOP
shitshowprimary debate, a question for the ages: Is Hillary Clinton to the right, politically, of Richard Nixon? [Lawyers, Guns & Money]* From an orphaned child refugee to a diplomat, an inspiring story. [Quartz]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.19.15
* This is a footlong you definitely don’t want (but it’s probably much more like a six-incher if he’s lucky). Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges. We can’t wait to see what his plea deal with authorities actually entails. [CNN]
* Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers filed a brief in favor of their client getting a new trial because his attack on the Boston Marathon apparently wasn’t a “crime of violence” within the meaning of the law he was sentenced under at trial. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “To achieve those solutions, wouldn’t it help if you had a free press?” Justice Ginsburg’s travels recently took her to Vietnam, where she spoke to a packed house about the country’s need for greater freedom of press to promote social justice. [Voice of America]
* Here’s a little-known fact about Biglaw: many of its most well-known partners were “White House rejects.” For example, Willkie Farr, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Bracewell & Giuliani, and Davis Polk are all named after failed presidential candidates. [Am Law Daily]
* A New Mexico criminal defense attorney charged with a slew of criminal offenses is representing himself in a trial having to do with his shooting of a man outside his office. His best defense thus far? The man was a “methed-out lunatic.” [Albuquerque Journal]
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8th Circuit, Bill Clinton, Constitutional Law, Elena Kagan, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Judicial Nominations, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
How Health Concerns Dashed A Judge's Supreme Court Dreams
Which distinguished lower-court judge came extremely close to landing a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court? -
Bill Clinton, Constitutional Law, Elena Kagan, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Judicial Nominations, Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Solicitor General's Office, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
4 Top Tidbits From The Latest Batch Of Clinton Papers
What juicy revelations about Justices Breyer and Ginsburg appear in the latest set of presidential papers? -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Celebrities, Department of Justice, Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, Fabulosity, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Joe Biden, Parties, Partner Issues, Politics, Samantha Power, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, White House Counsel
18 Legal Celebrities At The White House State Dinner
Who were some of the famous lawyers at Tuesday night's White House State Dinner?